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Proft = income - expense.

When you pay people to get work done for a business, that paid work is an expense.

You can deduct expenses from your income to calculate your profits.

IIRC the problem is that software development is not being classified as an operating expense, now, but rather a "research" capital expense, and the deductions then have to be amortized over a number of years.




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